Tesla to build Model S in San Jose

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California electric-car maker Tesla Motors is expected to announce on Wednesday plans for a new factory in San Jose to build the Model S in late 2010.

A city official told Reuters about the $250 million project. Production is expected to be at least 15,000 annually. Tesla previously said in June that it plans to make the Model S in California.

The five-passenger sedan will carry a sticker of $60,000 and expects to have a range of 220 miles on a single charge.

The Model S was previously known as the WhiteStar. It follows the Tesla Roadster, using a variant of that car's powertrain. It's expected to make about 280 hp and 280 lb-ft of torque.

http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080917/FREE/809179993/1065

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Could Tesla’s $60,000 electric sedan look something like this?

Aston Martin Rapide


That is what many are speculating after The Sun columnist, Ken Gibson, claimed he was given a “sneak preview” of the Model S at the end of his recent online column. Thus priming the the rumor mill at the telsamotorclub.com Model S potential design forum, and leading many to claim the Model S will look like the Aston Martin Rapide concept. This keeps in line with Tesla’s claims that the Model S will be a huge, very long, four door hatchback.

http://www.onelectriccars.com/tesla-motors/model-s/anticipation-builds-for-teslas-model-s/50